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Much like Con Withdrawl. A feeling of emptiness following any major holiday, mainly Halloween, Christmas, and in some cases Birthdays.
It's the second week of November but I'm still going through Holiday Withdrawl from Halloween. I know Xmas is coming up but that'll only end in holiday withdrawl as well.
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Term applying to a suburban housewife who spends most of her time looking after her kids, taking them to and from school, little league sports games, music lessons, etc., in lieu of a career. There are essentially two kinds of soccer moms:
-The bad kind: the one most other soccer mom definitions on this site target. The ones that take rather conservative views and approaches to life, having negative perceptions on most forms of modern music, video games, TV shows that don't feature characters like Spongebob and Mickey Mouse, and any and all signs of non-conformity. The type that feel anything that isn't considered "family friendly" (at least by their standards) should be outlawed.
-The good kind: a soccer mom who hates being such. Chances are that the soccer mom life isn't what they want; either they had bigger dreams and ambitions that never took off or didn't get far, or who convinced themselves they were happy and didn't see the truth until it was too late. Much more tolerant of outside influences and non-family friendly things (so long as no one is forcing them onto their children). Soccer moms like these tend to escape their dull lives by reading romantic-often dirty-novels and frequently getting drunk on wine.
Not all Soccer Moms are stuck up bitches who think their children come before anything and everything else in this world.
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One of the darkest, most sadistic, and best anime series' around. The story takes place from 1990-2055. The series is about Rin, who looks as though she's in her twenties or early thirties, but is actually immortal. For the first few episodes she runs a detective agency in Shinjuku with her friend Mimi, who is also immortal. While solving mysteries about deaths surrounding them and their friends, Rin and Mimi try to solve the mystery of whose been causing Rin suffering in her eternal life and trying to find a way to kill her once and for all.
The series is comprised of six 45-minute long episodes, each of them taking place in a different year. This is a great series that focuses on relationships, revenge, and the value of life
Rin-Daughters of Mnemosyne is one of the most underrated shows of all time. I seriously wish they would've made more episodes.
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When the government or media (more often than not it's both working together somehow) drive fear of a new threat (often terrorism or a deadly disease) into the people of the nation and keep them from expressing all of their freedoms and/or views and doing the things they want to do
Notable stories/events that have been constantly attacked/used for Government/Media fear:
-Terrorism
-Communism (see McCarthyism/ Red Scare)
-AIDS
-Drugs
- 9/11
-The "Brain Eating Amoeba"
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A very dark and experimental genre of music. The genre was first created by Throbbing Gristle in the 1970's. The sound is characterized by drone-like noises in an ambient style and frequent use of found objects and electronic instruments (mainly the keyboard and computer programming but electric guitars, bass, and drums are found in it). Industrial music became more well-known when the genres of Industrial Rock and Industrial Metal first came into being. Fans of Industrial music are called rivetheads though Industrial is very popular with straight up Goths.
Contrary to what some people say, bands like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, KMFDM, and some works of Marilyn Manson ARE in fact Industrial. Though these bands have had at least one period of mainstream exposure, they remain relativley underground compared to a lot of other musicians, not to mention a lot of them are back in the underground (while NIN and Manson have performed in stadiums before, they mostly play in smaller venues that barely hold more than 500-1000 people). Bands like the above mentioned ones are great for starting out with Industrial, though if you want to become serious about it you should also check out bands like Controlled Bleeding, Whitehouse, and Coil.
When you listen to Industrial Music, whether it be Throbbing Gristle's "20 Jazz Funk Greats" or Ministry's "The Land of Rape and Honey", you get a certain satisfaction and creative feeling you can't get from most other music.
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One who at one point identified as a traditional hippie, sharing the same viewpoints on politics, culture, sex, and drugs, but have since cleaned up and taken up normal lives. While most ex-hippies remain politically liberal on most issues, their views tend to be more to the right than their views in their hippie days, while several take more conservative approaches to the drugs they once did, especially involving their own children.
For most ex-hippies, the same bands they liked back in the day remain with them. More often than not it remains the only thing about them that doesn't change.
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Once one of the most important steps in creating and maintaining society, schools in the last 60 years or so have become about as effective as a condom with no covering on the tip.
Multiple factors have contributed to the downfall of school effectiveness, including (but not limited to):
*Teachers that treat students like they're more stupid than they really are
*Schoolboards and administrations that are more concerned with what the students are wearing than what they are learning
*Textbooks so boring and poorly written they make the worst parts of the bible look like the Harry Potter books
*Students who take out their frustrations with the school system on other students, making it hard for anyone to look forward to going
*Assignments, tests, and grading systems that make students start worrying about the smallest, most insignificant things.
Schools are really now nothing but prisons that let you go home every day-so long as you return the next.