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What year did everyone become so miserable?
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:03 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. People were happy in the 1990s. Now they’re not. What year did it switch?
I think I noticed a lot of people starting to complain around 2015 but I don’t remember the exact timeline and I’d like to get the bort’s thoughts |
Date: October 21st, 2025 9:07 PM Author: hank_scorpio circa 2012, we were halfway through obama and it was clear the rapture was not going to happen and shit was still just going to hell, we all recognize on some level that we are living in a decaying empire, most people probably can't articulate it but they have a sense that tracks very well with what, historically, is almost certainly happening to us right now and the fucking retards we put in charge think they are too smart for bad things to happen to them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365098) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:11 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. I suspect the societal misery has more to do with social media being in our faces 24/7 (apps, notifications, constant “breaking news”) and no longer something you just do on the computer for a couple hours a day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365112) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:28 PM Author: hank_scorpio that is a factor in the downfall of western civilization certainly, but a thriving society wouldn't be subject to that in the first place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365144) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:24 PM Author: we are definitely claiming fraud trumpmos (oppose israel bois) many thriving societies are also addicted to social media, try again (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365264) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:44 PM Author: hank_scorpio wtf society do you think is thriving? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365304) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:15 PM Author: da na na na na Inspector Faggot Post 9/11. Maybe 2004 or so. After that, the dam broke. It's been weird ever since. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365119) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:48 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. yeah I often have these moments where it hits me that my kids will never understand what it was like to live in pre-9/11 America (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365186) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:19 PM Author: WordcelWorth Well, 9/11 and Obama 2 Would be the obvious choices here but yet "Sopranos" back in '98 contained The same theme of American decay |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:21 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. why was Obama 2 worse than Obama 1? I notice a lot of you guys cite 2012 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365127) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:22 PM Author: da na na na na Inspector Faggot It's like a disease advancing from an early to a terminal stage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365134) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:28 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. I mean did you guys think there was a chance he wouldn’t win a second term? he’s the most popular president of the past quarter century. Shouldn’t your “oh fuck” moment have been 2008, not 2012? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365146) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:32 PM Author: ..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,..., He was terrible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365153) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:44 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. non responsive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365178) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:53 PM Author: da na na na na Inspector Faggot Yes. McCain was the clearly superior choice; however the nation was caught up in hypnosis/psychosis of 'transformative change' (aka I want to say I voted for the first black president) after the sort of drudgery of the Bush II era, that Obama coasted to a win. It was a storm of naive Millennials voting with the Leftist Boomer Radicals solidifying their Long March into the institutions.
IIRC, we knew before Obama was elected he launched his political career in Bill Ayers's living room. I guess it was a lesson in 'you get what you vote for'. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:39 PM Author: Jane Goodall Riding Harambe in Hell > the leftist boomer radicals
all three of them |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:24 PM Author: WordcelWorth Obama 2 there was no "HOPE" around Campaigning, and we still were in Iraq. The social pressure ramped up then as well. "Smith-Mundt Modernization Act" on Google |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:28 PM Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.....;;;. . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365145) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:13 PM Author: CriminalConversation Falling Down came out in 1993. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365237) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:13 PM Author: WordcelWorth Decline of The West was 1922. The malaise is more specific ITT |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:21 PM Author: habeas penem Once the iphone and facebook came along. Nothing has been fun since (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365128) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:23 PM Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.....;;;. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365136) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:35 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, This is the obvious answer.
Screens / social media has had the biggest effect on our happiness ever.
WFH is a great example of this. Almost everyone prefers WFH, but it's also pretty clearly awful for your mental health.
It's easier t owatch something on Netflix than to go to the movie theater. It's better to get food delivered to your porch and eat it on your couch that to go to a restaurant. Everyone prefers to text their friends than call them. You meet people on dating apps instead of going out to bars.
All these little improvements in our life have made us miserable. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:36 PM Author: OYT: Dinosaur Hunter ( ) where is the evidence that "people" are miserable though? when I scroll through Instagram and shit like that people generally give off the appearance of being "happy". so much so that I feel alienated, like not even of the same species. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365160) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:44 PM Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.....;;;. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365176) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:52 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, Is this a serious Q?
Everyone posts fake pictures of themselves having fun and then looks at everyone else's pictures and wonders why their own lives aren't like this.
What you're describing is happening to you is happening to everyone. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:54 PM Author: OYT: Dinosaur Hunter ( ) I know this is what your intuition tells you, I get that. But we must consider the possibility that we are only projecting our own misery on to others afaik. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365200) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:57 PM Author: hank_scorpio you for sure aren't, life is hell, everyone wakes up having to piss and having shit to do they don't want to do, happiness is a story people tell themselves, not a real thing that they experience, you get moments of joy but it all goes back to the slog for everyone, some people just lie better to themselves (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365204) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:00 PM Author: OYT: Dinosaur Hunter ( ) no one is more anti-life on this beautiful chatbort than me champ. but intellectually I understand that what I think is only what I think, and nothing else. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365211) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:02 PM Author: hank_scorpio oh I agree they think different things, but they don't experience them, they just tell themselves a different story about the same shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365215) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:11 PM Author: SneakersSO Now that’s what I call intellectual honesty 👍 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365230) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:41 PM Author: Jane Goodall Riding Harambe in Hell > everyone wakes up having to piss
if you don't have gonorrhea, pissing first thing in the morning is a pleasurable experience, not an unhappy one, wtf |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:45 PM Author: hank_scorpio I mean your physical state when you wake up is one of discomfort, which it is, you have to get out of bed and put shit on and then go piss, there is no way to spin that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365314) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:48 PM Author: Jane Goodall Riding Harambe in Hell Oh yeah, 100% agree, which is why I'm confused by the losermo arguing that WFH makes us miserable.
So much of life's problems go away if you WFH. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:10 PM Author: SneakersSO Good point OYT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365229) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:40 PM Author: Jane Goodall Riding Harambe in Hell > Almost everyone prefers WFH, but it's also pretty clearly awful for your mental health.
I didn't realize they let fucking retards sign up for this site. WFH is amazing. I did it so many years before retiring, and I'd wake up late, work from bed, go to a cafe, chat people up there while casually working, if i had a meeting i'd head back home to call, but basically i was just chilling, playing with my kids, fucking my wife, never having to drive a car, working out in the middle of the day, and going to bed early and getting 8+ hours of sleep every night. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:56 PM Author: 130k in childhood bedroom That’s great. I spent a huge chunk of my 20s in covid lockdown and have no wife to fuck so I just spend my WFH time fantasizing about killing myself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365338) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:14 PM Author: WordcelWorth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365364) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:34 PM Author: Kenneth Play (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365285) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:23 PM Author: ..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,..., Obama's second term (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365135) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:29 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. same question to you
https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&mc=15&forum_id=2#49365146 |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:25 PM Author: OYT: Dinosaur Hunter ( ) what makes you say that people are miserable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365140) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:30 PM Author: Covid was a Hoax annoyed? probably 2012 or so. truly miserable? i think 2021. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365149) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:45 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. was Biden’s landslide win over Trump a tough moment for you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365179) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:46 PM Author: ..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,..., You're just a lib troll (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365180) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:49 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. granted but I’d still like an answer to the question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365187) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:59 PM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,;:,:,,:,.,:,::,..;.,:,.:;.:.,;.:.,:.::, how has nobody said 2008
during the 9/11 aftermath and iraq it was all just disappointment and an almost quaint mocking frustration with american leadership as a pastime, mostly about things that were a distant reality for 95% of the population.
2008 was the first time we saw real anger. and we never turned back. if we had a republican president libs would have gotten violent. obama being president kept them merely demoralized. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:18 PM Author: SneakersSO 2008 was much worse than 9/11 but millennials eventually staged a comeback and are ow richer than Gen X (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365247) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:28 PM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,;:,:,,:,.,:,::,..;.,:,.:;.:.,;.:.,:.::, yes but people never stopped being miserable cunts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365278) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:44 PM Author: Jane Goodall Riding Harambe in Hell > 2008 was the first time we saw real anger
Only someone who wasn't an adult in 2003–04 would say this. There was legit fury over the invasion of Iraq. I was at uni at the time, and we blocked the roads and the city sent vehicles to run us over. Basically it was an ur-MAGA moment where crazy people thought they could commit vehicular murder on behalf of the gov't employer. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:51 PM Author: Muscadine wine In a just world, they would have sent steamrollers to make hippy pancakes out of you and your friends.
EDIT: in retrospect, you and your faggot friends were right, an irrelevant fact. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:00 PM Author: Rickabbalah I’ve hated this planet since around age 7 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365209) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:15 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,..,..,..,..,.,.,,..,.,,. what year? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365240) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:29 PM Author: Rickabbalah 90-95 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365279) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:08 PM Author: .,.,...,....,.,........,........ (Kurdt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365354) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:18 PM Author: Yummy Phase Pol Pot Tipping point IMO was around 2014 or 2015 when the smartphone reached mass proliferation. It's not the 24/7 social media feed so much as the fact that the smartphone removed all of the so-called "friction" from life.
But what tech frauds call "friction" is actually the texture of life.
You see ads for products or services that promise to "take care of X so you can go back to doing what you love." But now there is a smartphone-based service for everything that used to just be part of living a normal life. And all that people seem to love doing is endlessly scrolling. But not because they actually love it, rather it's because the smartphone has removed so much of actual life from the world. And what remains is but a husk.
It doesn't mean a person can't be happy, but it requires a meaningfully concerted effort to replicate a more analogue life. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:21 PM Author: woke dog 9/11 and then obama
anybody answering stuff other than these is not being Honest |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:23 PM Author: we are definitely claiming fraud trumpmos (oppose israel bois) this year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365260) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:42 PM Author: 130k in childhood bedroom It does seem to just keep getting worse. I am simultaneously depressed and relieved about no wife/children. I cannot imagine raising children in 2025 they are absolutely fucking COOKED. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365300) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:47 PM Author: Jane Goodall Riding Harambe in Hell This is something that occupies my thoughts a lot, and I'm worth eight figures (barely). I can't imagine what it's like to be a middle classmo rn. It must be completely hopeless. As it is, I'm not sure my net worth won't be entirely wiped out in ten years from social upheaval, the collapse of America, etc. Like it or not, even a globally diversified portfolio is fucked if the largest consumer breaks out into civil war. Global depression for a generation, no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365323) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:44 PM Author: OldHLSDude Uh, 30,000 BC. You know, that garden of Eden thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365305) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:50 PM Author: 130k in childhood bedroom I think 2017ish or so was the point of no return when the entirety of women’s collective unconscious was fully blown out by Tinder and IG. Women have always been capable of nastiness etc etc but there was so many good traits balancing out the other end. Your average person today just has so few redeeming qualities and their high powered perceptions are laser focused on the faults & inadequacies in others.
It’s obvious evil is in full control of this realm and automation will not be done kindly, but needfully. haha |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:55 PM Author: woke dog (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365336) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:52 PM Author: Muscadine wine There was a bunch of shit percolating for a while, but Covid & BLM riots was the end point.
Also, a great argument could be made for the year they started passing out smartphones. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:54 PM Author: Kalastack 1914 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365333) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:57 PM Author: Muscadine wine probably cr on a grand scale, but consider that Smashmouth's hits "Walking on the Sun" and "Allstar" came out in the late 90's, meaning that was still recently some joy left in the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2).#49365339) |